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Ze Frank | September 30, 2025



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  5. @crawhey

    September 30, 2025 at 2:19 pm

    a child’s problems are the same problems we face answering questions like this. it is all just one problem. like do anything you want, but you first need to know anything you want to do. then we die and continue fumbling through the routine the same way our elders did for generations dying and having more kids. morty said it parents are kids having kids you know.

  7. @Alienalloy

    September 30, 2025 at 2:19 pm

    I remember watching this 12 years ago and thinking… aaaaaaaaa! That makes so much sense, and I’ve used this to explain to people ever since why teens are such a pain in the arse. And to cut them some slack

  8. @danawilliams6657

    September 30, 2025 at 2:19 pm

    I think this is an important video, although it was made years ago it still holds 100% true. I’m an old lady now and survived my teen years, but I remember how devastating things could be, and seeing no way out! It’s important to receive a little love and praise during those years, even when discipline is required, an adult could show understanding and empathy.

  12. @cccchip04

    September 30, 2025 at 2:19 pm

    Parenting started being easier once I taught my son AND I how to stop and breath. Life is a series of different Opportunities teaching you how to calm down. It's hard learning to be human and at one point in time I didn't know anything I know now, and I thought my world was ending more than a few times. Give your child AND yourself a break, and be thankful that you both do not have to learn alone. I might of thought I was the worst parent in the world and what parent doesn't have regrets, but somehow I managed to raise a Nice Human.
    Hey Parents, you'll be fine, just be human with the lil human. So they have a physical example to see to learn how to deal with the highs and lows of learning how to be human.
    Hey Teens, I didn't excuse my parents by forgiving them, but it got easier once I admited they are human and learning how to be human too.
    Humans are the mathematical equation of cause and effect, we ride or drownd in those waves.

  13. @anonymous_wednesday

    September 30, 2025 at 2:19 pm

    y’know, i hate the whole “teenagers are idiots” thing. passionately so in fact. i dont see grown adults calling toddlers idiots because they fall down a lot and take 15 minutes to pick up 10 cheerios. teenagers are CHILDREN. they’re kids!!! why is your 6 year old brilliant for memorizing the alphabet, but your teen is an idiot for discovering what it feels like to be heartbroken?
    genuinely upsets me that empathy and patience for children learning about the world seems to stop at age 12.

  16. @mikecook6553

    September 30, 2025 at 2:19 pm

    Imagine years ago the supreme court thought being a teenager was a mental handicap but today a 7 year can tell you they are the opposite gender and full grown adults believe them and get them mutilated….

  24. @arielporte4149

    September 30, 2025 at 2:19 pm

    Hey sonny boys (yes I am older than you two whipper snappers) this is not helping.
    Teen agers are not idiots. They are inexperienced and naive about certain things, but putting them down just hurts them and teaches them not to trust their own self-preservation instincts. The teen who wrote to you is asking politely for guidance and wisdom, not a boot in the ass. Failure to teach me about several important subjects as a teen and even pre-teen made it totally easy for a predator to groom and molest me. I have spent the following 50 + years dealing with the damage that caused me both mentally and physically. I love your animal videos and humor about so many topics. And yes it helps us all to learn how to laugh at ourselves, but children and teens are not a kind age to make fun of to their face. It's very stressful being a teen and very cruel not to take them seriously.

  25. @joshuacaulfield

    September 30, 2025 at 2:19 pm

    Ok, please now do the same thing for 60+ and how they too have a different perspective on reality. I am looking at you Congress: “I am on 100.” “Bullying”, “perspective changing”.

  32. @paultoner6318

    September 30, 2025 at 2:19 pm

    I’m a 64yr old, (in no particular order or degree of success) father, grandfather, artist, teacher, designer, businessman and my still existent “teen brain” is my greatest asset and my gravest flaw. It’s the amazing bronco that never quite stayed broke.

    The science stuff was interesting… Thanks.

  45. @unitymomentum

    September 30, 2025 at 2:19 pm

    I watched this as a teen and i still think this is incredibly unkind and misguided against the original poster. Teens are people too, they shouldn't be rendered down to be thought of as "adults in training." Young people are full individuals in their own right. I know it might sound like a radical notion, it certainly was a few years ago around when this was posted, children are right-bearers who deserve our respect and integrity. The youngest and most vulnerable among us deserve the best version of their parents in order to have the healthy brain and nervous system development they're entitled to.

    Older generations need to overcome their stigma of therapy and healing if they ever want a relationship with their kids/grandkids, it's a definite intergenerational split separated by a benefit from the progression and availability of science and education and younger generations not being as meek as elder generations would have hoped.

  48. @MenosProblemos

    September 30, 2025 at 2:19 pm

    I told my mother that when I told her my troubles she'd listen to the end before giving me advice.
    I would highly recommend this.
    The reason was (and still is) that when I'm done pouring my heart I am calmer and can better take in the advice she gives me, sometimes I come up with my own solution before I'm done talking and sometimes it's enough just to think things through.
    It's helped tons!

    Too few therapists let their empathy do their job for them. But mothers often have nothing better to do than to help their offspring through life.
    It's beautiful and seems a bit dull. But I'm not a mother, so I just roll with it.

  50. @tilmanvogel2387

    September 30, 2025 at 2:19 pm

    Gonna give my tencents as a 36y/o with 8 years of experience as a psychotherapist and social worker. I will be a little polemic because what I read here tempts me to, just so you know.

    1) I don't know what adults the ppl in this comment section know (or fancy themselves to be), but to me the idea that adults on average think and behave significantly more rationally then teenagers seems little more then wishful thinking. Oh yes, many biologically adult people will talk smarter and have more sophisticated rationalizations, they also may have less mood swings – but most are by no means less neurotic or emotionally immature. On the other hand, most adults will be a lot less flexible and more attached to their dysfunctional beliefs and behavioral patterns than most teens.

    2) "It's just a phase", "it's not as bad as it seems", this type of advice that many seem to value so highly sounds nice and sure is meant well. At the same time, it is a major feat of avoidance: inability to be with a person in pain, with empathy and without judgment, instead rushing to offering "solutions" and consolation, because the other confronts us with our own pain and we can't bear it. Any therapist telling stuff like this to their clients had better hurry to find a new job, and any non-therapists who do would do the world a favor by learning a little more about what is needed when facing someone in pain. The short version is: Trust that deep inside, they have all the solutions they need; listen with empathy, and only give advice a) when asked for it and b) if you can really back it up with proper life experience. That holds true for both teens and adults.

    Whew, got that off my chest… now back to the animal videos ;'D

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